Whispers From the After Life (hosie)

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Josie gasps in pain ,  her heartbeat is so fast and loud she can literally hear it.  She looks down and sees blood flowing down her stomach, a knife protruding out of the wound.  She looks at the red headed woman standing in front of her and then to the other person standing in the room.

"Why would you do this?   Why would you do this to me?  I trusted you completely"

"I'm sorry Josie there was no other way to get what Aurora needs."

They are standing in the dorm room that has been Josie's home in Belgium since she left Mystic Falls a few months ago.    She needed a break from her life there,  it was too pressured.  Too overwhelming. Thinking back on the year before she left,  was simply too painful. Firstly watching the love of her life deciding to die, deliberately ending her life so she could transition to become the fully activated tribrid so she could put an end to Malivore.    Josie's  heart aches just thinking about it.

She remembers looking at Hope's corpse lying on her bed in her room at Salvatore,  she had spent every second with her since Freya had put an end to her life.  She hated the way Freya had to leave to go back to New Orleans so suddenly,  and wouldn't be the sole member of her family to be there when she awoke, but she knows it was an emergency, a family crisis she had said.

Josie had been there when she did it,  she wanted to be there for Hope in her last moments,  holding her hand close.    Josie was witness to the magical cardiac arrest spell Freya had used.  It was sad, it wasn't what anyone wanted including Hope,  but that was her fate. Josie had to go along with her wishes.  The only positive Josie could get out of it was at least it was a peaceful death unlike succumbing violently to one of the monster attacks that kept appearing from Malivor , this is how Hope thought her life would end.

She had only left for a couple of minutes to go to the bathroom and freshen up.  When she came back, the bed where Hope's body lay was empty and her window smashed and shouldering fire filling  the room and poisoning the air.  She realised Hope had been taken.

That day she spent totally consumed on getting Hope back,  there was a deadline for a transitioning vampire to feed on human blood so the change would be complete.

She was working through exhaustion and despair to find her.  To get to her in time.   Through location spells they finally found her, barely alive.  Josie's heart dropped seeing her in such a fragile state, barely moving,  her colour ashen.   Malivore in Landon's body had used Kaleb as his personal puppet to bring Hope to him.. His intention was to starve her so she'd permanently die before turning. With her death there would be nothing or no one left to kill him.

He had her held captive in an abandoned train carriage,   in and old derelict train station a place no one ever goes to anymore.  They had just gotten to her in time and it was Josie's blood that turned her. Josie demanded it be her blood,  unable to think of anyone else's blood flowing through her body.  Maybe selfish but she didn't care. When Hope's strength came back and her transition was complete, Josie stood back and looked at her in awe.  She was beautiful. Eyes glowing gold,  her fangs poking through.  She was majestic, beautiful, magical. 

There was no time for talking,  Hope had to kill Malivore.   She cornered him quickly,  fighting her mind that would only see her 'Epic love" landon standing in front of her,  she knew she had to kill him, her brain knew too but her heart only saw Landon  and not the monster who had taken over his body.       He stood there taunting her until something finally snapped in her head,  she cut her arm and used the blood to make a sword,  plunging it through Landon/Malivore's heart. Killing him instantly.

After that her humanity had switched off and Josie spent weeks trying to get her humanity back.  Helping the Mikaelsons come up with plan after plan, until finally they were successful  Hope came back to them with her humanity intact.  However she was tormented and hated herself, her mind torturing her with the memories of what she had todo.  She distanced herself from everyone.  She wasn't looking after herself and Josie feared she wasn't feeding so she could desiccate and fade away from reality.

Everyone else did what they thought Hope wanted and distanced themselves, giving her the space they thought she wanted.  But not Josie, she would be there for Hope whether she wanted her there or not. Josie was with her through it all,  until finally the old Hope shone through.

They grew closer and one night their feelings had taken over and in a mad frenzy they made love.  Josie had admitted to her that she had loved her for years.  Hope had been oblivious to it.  They were inseparable for the following months.  Everyone seeing their relationship blossom.  Until something happened,  no one knows what and Hope had amental break.  Josie could see her battling with herself again and it was breaking her.

When she asked Hope what was happening,  all she said was she was dishonoring Landon's memory,  moving on so fast.  As much as it was crushing Josie then , she knew she had to give Hope the time to grieve over Landon and she could never do that with her around, so she said to Lizzie her twin and Alaric her father,  she was going to go and continue her education in Belgium,  at an all girls supernatural school there.  She wasn't going to be alone,  she had an old friend,  well actually an old girlfriend there, Penelope who used to go to the Salvatore school.  She had moved to Belgium after dumping Josie and leaving her broken hearted.  But Josie being Josie forgave her.  She didn't know if leaving Hope like this was the right thing to do but she had to go with her gut so Belgium she went.

Over the next months Josie got close to Penelope again,  she even asked her to be her room mate.  There was nothing romantic about their relationship.  Just old friends catching up and enjoying each others company.  Until a month ago,  Penelope had become withdrawn and started distancing herself from Josie.  She wouldn't talk about why but it wasn't the same.

Present

Then today she can see why.  It was Penelope standing right next to Aurora and as Josie could feel her life fading away,  she fell to her knee sand looked right up at Penelope.

"Why?"

"She was blackmailing me Josie,  I had to do what she asked or she was going to kill my family,  I am truly so sorry." she said between sobs.  Penelope never wanted to betray her friend but she had no choice.

"Well Well Ms Saltzman"  Aurora says,  "You have something that I need very much."

Josie is trying to stay kneeling but she has no strength,  she falls to the floor.

"You did such a good job of hiding the weapon that can kill the tribrid for so long,  ,  but I knew such a strong witch like Penelope would be able to break through your boundary spells.  And I'm afraid your death is necessary.  For you were the only one that spelled the weapon,  and that magic dies with you."  Aurora laughs. Penelope on the other hand is sobbing.  "I am however undoubtedly impressed for keeping it so safe but you just fell a little short at the end my dear girl"

Josie looks around,  she's enjoyed her time here in Belgium,  with her so called friend.  Looking at her dorm room, decorated with pictures from home and lots of pot plants and things she loves ,  she's upset this is going to be the place she dies.  She can feel herself going, her vision is blurring,  her heart slowing and her breath shallowing, she sees behind them her favourite photo hanging on her wall, a picture of her and Hope together,  laughing and enjoying their moment.  Josie reaches to the silver pendant that is around her neck,  a gift from Hope on her 16th birthday.

"What does it do?"  she remembers asking Hope.

As Hope reaches out to dry a tear from Josie's cheek.  "It's a family heirloom,  a talisman and It makes quiet things heard"

Josie is still holding the talisman in her hand,  and the last thought she had before her life was snuffed out was of Hope, her auburn hair flowing down to her waist and those piercing blue eyes.

Tears trickle down her face where she lays,  she takes one last look at Penelope and closes her eyes, one last breath.  She dies where she lays.